The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1887-10-28


There is too much swoon Ia youi
past history, Mr. Eustis, for yon u
sssame the character of 40 apostle
% these issues The white people d
this Stale have taken notes about.ynul
political history, and they are not APP
70 forget that If you have now the
honor Of representing ~ them 10 the
Senate, il i By the grace of McEncr,
and the help Of negro Republican
votes. ---Lake Charles Comnaeycial.
So far as the election of Mr.. Eustis
is concerned the facts Of the case are
that the two negroes whose votes seems
inst at the present time to have upset
the equilibrium of the Commercial
and sent it upon 'iwool-gatheriug''
expedition, were elected from Madison
parish as Democrats, and, as such,
affiliated and voted with the Demo.
Gratis on all party measures. These
negroes were entitled 10 sit in Demo
cratic oaueus and participate in the
election Of United States Senator,
and they did SO and voted for Eustis
for the Senate.
1t ls unfortunate for the Commercial
as 1t will prove regular "boomerang''
in the path of that great Reform
apostle, Senator Randall Lee Gibson,
that our Deighbor ever mentioned the
TACT that two negroes voted for Eustis,
for a retrospective glance back to the
year 1880, when sex-Gov. John Nc
Emery and Gen. Gibson were rival
candidates for the United States Sen
ate we find in the Legislature at that
time one Simon Shaeffer, a coal black
negro from Tensas parish, an avowed
Republican, who was by some peculiar
process brought into the Democratic
caucus, where, so says the New Or
leans States, che voted straight
through for Gen. R. L. Gibson, who
poses before the people to-day as the
incarnation of Reform and the ouint-
essence of all that is pure and holy in
Nineteenth Century politics. He was
elected.
"Now, mark you the sequel. Had
this negro continued to act with the
Democrats after the election of a
Senator, las the two negroes did that
voted for Eustis) some justification
for that shady business might be urg-
cd but the worst of the whole matter
is that no sooner had the election of
Mr.. Gibson been coDsummated than
the sable Shaeffer marched back into
the Radical caucus, and continued
thereafter, until the end of his term,
to act and vote as a Republican with
the Radical members OF the Legisla-
ture.
"On the day following the election
of Mr.. Gibson as United States Sena.
tor, the African statesman from Tensas
sPOrted bran-new suit of clothes and
exquisite gold studs, but of course
they we're presented to hun by admir-
ing friends IN recognition of his supe-
rior ability in Distinguishing between
the vices of John McEnery, the Ring
ster, as compared with the virtues of
Gen. Randall Lee Gibson, the Re
former, whom he helped elect"
Now the above facts relative to
Gen. Gibson's election to the .. S.
Senate were published several months
ago in the N. o. States, and If we
remember Alright neither the General
or any Of his friends have attempted
to deny their truthfulness. So in a
spirit Of fair play and in Justice to
both of our honored Senators we
Wonld ask the Commercial if it doesn't
look little like Gen. Gibson is about
as good judge of "wooP' and esteems
its commercial value about as highly
as Senator Eustis does 2